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“There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention.”

Thinking Way Kind Art I Can Happens Given Singing Access Invention Pathways Mothering Spooky

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.”

Thinking Knows I Can Culture Names Language Given Can Do Great Things Defined Compliment

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.”

People Thinking Art Certain Spirituality Individual Given

Author:Tony Bennett

“Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.”

Thinking Feels Years Given Chance Havens New York Yeah Broadway Given Up Unfinished

Author:Eva LaRue

“Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.”

Thinking World Given Nations Revolution Mets Recognition Firm Crush Courageous Intervention Manly

Author:Franz von Papen

“This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February.”

Thinking Made Facts Given Deals Release Made It February

Author:John Prescott

“All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.”

Thinking Men Years America Speak Given Black My Own Results Four Serious Exercise Court Injustice Jail Chicago Four Years Peers Behalf Inability Jury Court System

Author:Bobby Seale

“It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.”

Thinking Needs Given Powerful Cases Clear Magic Conviction Posts Relevant Bullets Scenarios

Author:Chris Asplen

“The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government's gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We've gotten out of control.”

Thinking Way Said Government Given Gone Constitution Assets Amendments Reserves Federal Government Federal Reserve

Author:David Malpass

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?”

Thinking World Kind Doe Book Ends Reason Stories Bigs Care Guy Turns Girl Reading Given Novel Data Winner Plot Adultery

Author:Elif Batuman

“I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.”

Thinking Years Humans Heart Lasts Night Given Felt My Heart Encounters Last Year Given Up Prostitution Closeness Friendliness Pantomime

Book:The Sisters Brothers

Source: The Sisters Brothers

“Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the problem of determining which sequence of words a given utterance encodes. Since, in the general case, transducer outputs underdetermine perceptual analyses, we can think of the solution of such problems as involving processes of nondemonstrative inference. In particular, we can think of each input system as a computational mechanism which projects and confirms a certain class of hyputheses on the basis of a certain body of data.”

“The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Ideas Soul Care Given Causes Differences Dark Numbers Behinds Concepts Murder Cease Tendencies Substance Significance Sensible Entity Metaphysical Frontiers

Book:Eclipse of Reason

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

Thinking World Needs Mind Persons Ideas Shows Running School Young Opportunity Given Planets Demand Authority Evidence Sacred Train Rational Brethren Young Minds

Author:Jack McDevitt

“I did my own thinking. I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing.”

Thinking Giving Done Given My Own Washing

Author:William Mulock

“I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.”

Thinking World Stills Given Force Understanding Dark Changed Adventure Deeper Horrible Idealistic Horrible Things Deeper Understanding I Have Changed Dark Forces

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.”

People Thinking Self Sometimes Hard Problem Past Given Struggle One Thing Constant Bones Ridiculous Thanks Crush Hard Times Tragic Insecurity Upbringing

Author:Mark Oliver

“I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom ... the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Happens Given Achieve Dignity Absolutes Superiors Superior Man Absolute Freedom

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.”

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Literature Given Space Media Psychological Worried Breathing Slides Bulimia Breathing Space

Author:Anthony Holden

“There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones... I think it's human nature, in many ways, to retell our favorite stories. We do it in the theater, all the time. I've seen four different 'Hamlets,' and every one has given me something different.”

Thinking Way Humans Different Reason Stories Given Four Human Nature Theater Remakes Wrong Reasons

Author:Joel Kinnaman

“It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try to make it work but I got to let you know."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Looks I Can Important Ideas Sometimes Feelings Might Given Cutting Scene Directors Instinct Good Ideas

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) which is where I went. When he auditioned me, he said, "Your speech, monologue, is fine. It's good. Yeah, I think you have ability but you're making it happen. Don't make it happen, let it happen." And that's a sort of subtle shift I think, as an actor.”

Thinking Should Art Said Happens Actors Given Ability Principles Pieces Advice Fine Speech Yeah Dramatic Subtle Royal Academy Make It Happen Monologues

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.”

Thinking Needs Feels Stories Film Actors Given Performances Ownership

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to think about what the whole ensemble looks like. It's the whole that counts. The parts are given, but you don't know how the whole thing's going to look when it's all put together.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Kind Ends Enough Whole Together Artist Given Careers Know How Lucky Ensemble

Author:Frank Stella

“You are meant to think before you speak. How many times is your heart involved in what you are doing? Every act should be a spiritual one involving your total being - soul, mind and body - done for the sake of the doing, given for the sake of the giving, worked for the sake of the working, not for the sake of what you can get out of it. The more you do this, uniting all the aspects of your being, the more you will create harmony, balance and peace.”

Thinking Giving Should Mind Heart Soul Done Body Spiritual Speak Given Balance Involved Aspect Harmony Sake Mind And Body Involving Uniting Think Before You Speak

Author:Jack Schwarz

“We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.”

Thinking Should Home Given Months Six Iraq Work Out Troops Six Months Our Troops

Author:Thomas Friedman

“I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you know what shape it will become. But then it's the daughter who draws the lines, and she might connect the dots you didn't intend, making a whole different picture. So I've gotta trust the dots she's given me, and she's gotta trust me to draw the picture myself.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Different Whole Might Given Lines Mom Shapes Draws Daughter Trust Me Dots You Think You Know

Author:Laura Lee

“I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.”

Thinking Way Want Believe America Lost Given Fine Praying Confused Ancestor

Author:Angie Harmon

“The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Given Acting Giving Up Vulnerable Privileged Moaning

Author:Paddy Considine

“I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.”

Thinking Want Firsts Real Play Given Challenges Responsibility Scary Real Life

Author:Liya Kebede

“I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Important Book Ideas Use Together Given Loses Effects Personality Sight Impression Quotations Climax Art Of Writing

Author:George Eliot

“Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]”

Thinking May Given Return Benefits Hatred Thanks Acceptable Receiver Posse

Author:Tacitus

“Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.”

Thinking May Given Return Benefits Hatred Thanks Acceptable Receiver

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.”

Thinking Knows World Should Firsts Form Names Given Poor Existence Accepting Poverty First Time Conclusion Awards Poorest Homage

Author:Mother Teresa

“[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.”

Thinking I Can Sometimes Remember Father Given Friendship Affection Smell Generous Shirts Awkward Hug Spices Tobacco Engulfing Old Spice

Book:Move On

Source: Move On

“Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.”

Thinking Men Book Reading Given Difficult Born He Man Personality Stations

Book:Recollections: Personal and Literary

Source: Recollections: Personal and Literary

“It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.”

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980

“... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.”

Thinking Doe Government Given Walks Streets Subjects Civilization Wretchedness

Author:Freya Stark

“I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.”

Thinking Knows Writing Children Book Used Given

Author:Danielle Steel

“It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.”

Thinking Want Given Can Do Challenges Lines Walks Easier Limits Harder Photographer Gallery Parameters

Author:David LaChapelle

“We have to decide whether our fear is going to get the better of us. Once upon a time we had a standard in our country that was 'innocent until proven guilty.' We've given up on so much. Now, people are talking about a standard that is 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.' Think about it. Is that the standard we're willing to live under?”

People Ifs Thinking Country Given Talking Willing Standards Innocent Guilty Our Country Proven Given Up Once Upon A Time Nsa Right To Privacy

Author:Rand Paul

“I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.”

Thinking Given Challenges Quality Leader Tested

Author:Steven Spielberg

“We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.”

Thinking Trying Problem Given Challenges Cities Groups Design Smart Research Fundamentals Assumption Mit

Author:William J. Mitchell

“I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.”

Thinking Men Children Long Has Beens I Can Given Heaven Waiting Grateful Verses Child Of God

Author:Ann Voskamp

“People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Long Has Beens Problem Running Reading Given Intellectual Publishing Proven Output Pseudo Cartels Snobby Pseudo Intellectuals

Author:Tucker Max

“I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.”

People Thinking Trying Given Given Up

Author:Conor Oberst

“It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be as best as possible put back together. So it's an argument to say, maybe that's one of those instances, like the bust of Nefertiti, I think that should be given back [Egyptian piece currently in Neues Museum in Berlin]. It's one of those pieces you look at and think that would probably be the right thing to do.”

Thinking Should Looks Art Together Given Cases Pieces Argument Instance Things To Do Right Thing Museums Berlin Back Together One Piece Egyptian Nefertiti

Author:George Clooney

“Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.”

People Thinking Certain Given Dark Quality Magic Tradition Woods Landscape Realism Yankees Magic Realism Hawthorne Dark Woods

Author:Alice Hoffman

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